The youngest man ever to win a world cup event trains in Aspen. Late last month, snowboarder Chris Corning claimed the title at a competition in New Zealand. Aspen Public Radio’s Marci Krivonen has more.

Corning, 15, made history August 22nd when he grabbed first place in the slopestyle competition at the Audi Quattro Winter Games. Corning credits early practice in New Zealand.

"I got there August fourth, so I had a little time to get my feet under me and learn a new trick. I was feeling really confident," he says.

The science of sports will be front and center during a new event in the Upper Valley this weekend. The Aspen Club is hosting the Aspen Sports Summit. It’s designed for a wide audience, from professionals to concerned parents.

Brad Manosevitz, Chief instructor at Aikido Aspen. Brad began studying Aikido in Santa Cruz, California under the direction of Linda Holiday Sensei in 1990. He has led the Aikido program at Colorado Mountain College since 2001.

The number of women who are hunting and fishing is growing and in some years is outpacing the number of men who receive hunting licenses. This trend hasn’t been missed by Colorado’s Division of Parks and Wildlife which relies heavily on license sales to fund its management of wild lands. Earlier this week, Parks and Wildlife hosted a free hunting and fishing clinic for women in Basalt. Dorothy Atkins went along and filed this report.

A veritable avalanche of information has come out about cyclist Lance Armstrong doping during his career. The iconic athlete even confessed to it in an Oprah interview early this year. But the details keep coming, now in a book by two Wall Street Journal reporters. Vanessa O’Connell and Reed Albergotti explore the financial underpinnings of how and why Armstrong cheated, in the book “Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever.” Armstrong is a part-time Aspen resident. Aspen Public Radio’s Elise Thatcher recently spoke with O’Connell and Albergotti.